We are chandeliers with crystal brightness, The sun embraces us from her residence We have sinned against our souls & soils, Forgive our faults & let this hunger go down With the setting sun. We are rivers flowing into springs, Cliffs, gulfs, we fall into ourselves —water. No one resents water, may this thirst [...]
Help me to forget The land with devastated buildings, The smokes without fire, The trees lying lifeless, and The soldiers running restless. Help me to forget The forever dead ends, The runaway parents, The massacred children, and The whirlwind that swept their hope. Help me to forget The konga without boom boom, The [...]
As giant ants march ahead in nightly arrays Demonstrating against the ruling humans Along the main street of every major city Hordes of vampires flood in, Screaming aloud, Riding on hyenas and octopuses, Waving skeletons in their hairy hands, Whipping at old werewolves Or all-eyed aliens standing by With their blood-dripping tails Gathering behind [...]
Once, when the boy barely came to the man’s knees, when the man had to tilt to reach the boy’s tiny, soft hand, he would gently enfold the boy’s fingers into his own and guide him to the water’s edge. Now, after years of absence and interference - separated as other’s conflicts became theirs - [...]
~ tomorrow, when God calls from the heavens, we will say Amen because we have learnt that broken things don't fly they don't soar, they search through the dirt waiting for redemption. ~ today, we will lift our voices like cherubs and sing away the filth that clads our body. with black-winged cherubs screaming [...]
I see Papa, lying on his bed. His round glasses make his face even rounder as he reads from his big Bible. I swallow my saliva, so I do not say the hurtful things my heart delivers to my mouth. I make my fingers into a fist and struggle with the urge to grab the [...]
Mixed feelings to her weren’t like curry and talcum but like sugar and salt, each element primarily indistinguishable from the other until—at least, another of the senses was employed. And even then, it would be silly to commence the task of separating each atomic grain of sugar from each atomic grain of salt—best leave things [...]
Last night, I heard you sing out the scars in your voice. It was a depiction of how death lurches in your throat, And grief burns like an inferno in your tummy. Your wings drop like dried leaves in harmattan. The winds beat your wings As your feathers flutter to the song of the [...]
You held the sun By the throat, Made love to darkness. She screamed your name —But your name, Sopona, Is not to be spoken— We fell to the Wrath of earth. The air we breathe Stalks us Water can't cleanse this curse. you are death, You are antidote. The sun is your wife, The moon, [...]
‘When I was first brought here, Those hallways were more beautiful Than any palace…’—Merlin Two lines stretched apart And we fell through. The Isle of the Blessed. Shrouded by mist, Pulsing with possibility and life; The air never extreme Which for rain had a little silver dew. Your voice was a given, [...]
